Hi Ken,

2011/3/4 <Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com>

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> On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600
> ><Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
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> >> The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
> >> character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
> >> figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
> >> between cells.  Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
> >> seem to find?
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> >I don't think you can.
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> I'm making slight progress, actually.
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mo
> de), it was suggested to use the \vert{} character escape, which does
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> However, since this is code (a regular expression), I want it to appear
> monospaced, so I'm not out of the woods yet - here's a test case that
> shows my intent:


>  | foo | =m/foo\vert{}foodfight/= |
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> The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =...= construction.  Furthermore,
> the =...= construction is problematic there because it conflicts with the
> start-of-formula syntax.
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=...= is used for code so it is printed as it written
You may use \texttt{}
| foo | \texttt{m\/foo\vert{}foodfight\/} |

I don't have emacs right now so I can test it... but it should work

CP


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